Block's Android Developer Experience team is responsible for building and providing the necessary infrastructure and tools to ensure Square's Android development can continue to be fast and efficient at scale, empowering hundreds of mobile developers to move more quickly than competitors.
Requirements
- Familiarity with build systems (e.g. Ant, Maven, Buck, Gradle, Pants) and CI tools (e.g. Circle, Travis, Jenkins)
- Experience with supporting build or CI systems infrastructure (ideally at scale)
- Experience building apps for Android in Java / Kotlin
Responsibilities
- Innovate to amplify the efficiency of our mobile developers to develop, build, test, and release high quality apps to our merchants.
- Identify key performance bottlenecks in the development experience including the build system, IDE integrations, testing frameworks, and pull request workflows.
- Help define the scope and the priorities of the team by identifying opportunities to decrease build times, reduce system complexity, and improve the developer experience.
- Optimize the performance, reliability, and usability of our CI pipeline
- Own the success of your team's projects, and deliver quantifiable results.
- Leverage AI-first engineering practices to design, build, and optimize solutions that maximize efficiency, scalability, and developer velocity.
Other
- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience
- Excellent software engineering aptitude and the ability to provide technical mentorship and guidance
- We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process.
- Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location.
- Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering.
